Brilliant video! I just watched Citizen Kane for the first time today and I was wondering why it was hailed as so amazing. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but I just didn't immediately see it as a masterpiece. Your video has certainly given some insight on that and changed the way I look at it. Thank You :)
Thanks! I'm really glad. Yeah, I saw Citizen Kane (at least part of it) for the first time when I was in school and I 100% didn't get it. It was when I watched the whole thing in university, after learning about the different prevailing theories around this time period that I actually understood it! I think part of the reason lots of people don't really like old movies is because of the context it requires to properly understand them. Glad I could help provide some of that context!
@@matthewgilpincom Yes, I liked much more this second time. I think the movie could also be interpreted as a masterpiece because of how it changes the tone a lot, treating about various themes. I don't think I've ever seen another film that managed to do this so well.
The acting, cinematography, sets, makeup and special effects are all as good as it gets. The story, however, is where I believe this film falters. It's basically a one-way arrow about only the main character. Either you sympathize with Kane or you do not. I think one of the reasons they used flashbacks and jumps and a lot of special effects was because the story is a bit lacking (although they did a marvelous job of it). I would still put this film among the best because Wells had never directed a film before and did an amazing job of acting. Also the film nearly got censored because of Hearst because - among other things - Rosebud was Hearst's pet name for Marion Davies' vagina. Subversive as hell...
I'd be really interested in a video on the code to govern the making of motion pictures! (I liked that "which is" "witches" moment too) And this was a really interesting video in itself, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making it! It was a little quiet compared to the last video I watched before clicking over but that's about all.
Yea this movie is just too damn boring for me to watch. The cinematography and editing are excellent but the story is just so dull that I can hardly understand the mass appeal for it. I guess I’m just a weirdo.
**The shoot horses don't they**.......**midnight cowboy**........**7samurai**.........**the wild bunch**.......**.bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia**.......**alien**.......**2001space odessey**......
I am seriously irritated by this films constant coronating.......its dreary ,self reverential, onanating, ; immersed in the stercoraceous vomit of its critics lauding.......just like **the exorcist** it's overrated....(girl in peril from demon*great*.)go watch the **treasure of the Sierra madre**......that speaks about the pain of life.....this magicizing of the human experience goes nowhere.....why is it interesting ?who cares about a wealthy newspaper owner and camera angles....what aspect of the human polygony does it express?.....
@@matthewgilpincom the greatest film ever is Andre Tarkovskys **Solaris**(1972) ... **They shoot horses dont they** Sidney pollack(dir) 1969-is also worth a look.... All great art must consider and meditate the existential emptiness of this ersatz freedom: that is life.... Not a wallowing in ennui, but a reveling in the endlessness of the meaninglessness of life... Sentient consciousness is an ephemeral, painful,aberrant pointless unrequested term- our parents throw us into... Address this or create a shallow perfumed curtain; draping and veiling the stinking corpse of reality.
@@matthewgilpincom because it is trash. I am sick and tired of people saying it's a masterpiece and it's not. The only thing this film has is camera angles. That's it. Also it's soicalist dogma.
Brilliant video! I just watched Citizen Kane for the first time today and I was wondering why it was hailed as so amazing. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but I just didn't immediately see it as a masterpiece. Your video has certainly given some insight on that and changed the way I look at it. Thank You :)
Thanks! I'm really glad. Yeah, I saw Citizen Kane (at least part of it) for the first time when I was in school and I 100% didn't get it. It was when I watched the whole thing in university, after learning about the different prevailing theories around this time period that I actually understood it!
I think part of the reason lots of people don't really like old movies is because of the context it requires to properly understand them. Glad I could help provide some of that context!
Great video, man. I'm watching Citizen Kane again today, now with this new perspective you gave me. Thank you.
Glad to hear it! Did your rewatch with this stuff in yield any new thoughts or interpretations?
@@matthewgilpincom Yes, I liked much more this second time. I think the movie could also be interpreted as a masterpiece because of how it changes the tone a lot, treating about various themes. I don't think I've ever seen another film that managed to do this so well.
Brilliant and much appreciated insight into the foreign film community adopting the reality of Welles being the master of cinema. Bravo Matthew!
Thanks! Hope you it's a useful perspective for you!
I love Kane, but I think Chimes At Midnight was Welles’ best work. Welles himself would agree.
The acting, cinematography, sets, makeup and special effects are all as good as it gets. The story, however, is where I believe this film falters. It's basically a one-way arrow about only the main character. Either you sympathize with Kane or you do not. I think one of the reasons they used flashbacks and jumps and a lot of special effects was because the story is a bit lacking (although they did a marvelous job of it).
I would still put this film among the best because Wells had never directed a film before and did an amazing job of acting. Also the film nearly got censored because of Hearst because - among other things - Rosebud was Hearst's pet name for Marion Davies' vagina. Subversive as hell...
I'd be really interested in a video on the code to govern the making of motion pictures! (I liked that "which is" "witches" moment too)
And this was a really interesting video in itself, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making it! It was a little quiet compared to the last video I watched before clicking over but that's about all.
Orson da goat no cap
my favorite movie 🤩
It's pretty dang great, isn't it! It's managed to age so well, too!
Yea this movie is just too damn boring for me to watch. The cinematography and editing are excellent but the story is just so dull that I can hardly understand the mass appeal for it. I guess I’m just a weirdo.
Vertigo, Jaws, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest are all better then Citizen Kane.
only vertigo
Don’t forget 12 Angry Men.
Films are subjective so ……yeah
**The shoot horses don't they**.......**midnight cowboy**........**7samurai**.........**the wild bunch**.......**.bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia**.......**alien**.......**2001space odessey**......
I am seriously irritated by this films constant coronating.......its dreary ,self reverential, onanating, ; immersed in the stercoraceous vomit of its critics lauding.......just like **the exorcist** it's overrated....(girl in peril from demon*great*.)go watch the **treasure of the Sierra madre**......that speaks about the pain of life.....this magicizing of the human experience goes nowhere.....why is it interesting ?who cares about a wealthy newspaper owner and camera angles....what aspect of the human polygony does it express?.....
This comment confuses me on several levels.
@@matthewgilpincom the greatest film ever is Andre Tarkovskys **Solaris**(1972) ... **They shoot horses dont they** Sidney pollack(dir) 1969-is also worth a look.... All great art must consider and meditate the existential emptiness of this ersatz freedom: that is life.... Not a wallowing in ennui, but a reveling in the endlessness of the meaninglessness of life...
Sentient consciousness is an ephemeral, painful,aberrant pointless unrequested term- our parents throw us into... Address this or create a shallow perfumed curtain; draping and veiling the stinking corpse of reality.
It's not a masterpiece. It's trash at best.
And what makes you say that?
@@matthewgilpincom because it is trash.
I am sick and tired of people saying it's a masterpiece and it's not.
The only thing this film has is camera angles.
That's it.
Also it's soicalist dogma.